A Los Angeles police officer who mistakenly shot a teenager last year after seeing a group of boys with a replica gun was justified in opening fire, even though the wounded teen hadn't been holding the toy weapon, the L.A. Police Commission decided this week. The Feb. 10 shooting generated calls...

Melvin Farmer remembers the days when Bloods and Crips openly flashed their colors. Gang members wore an evolving uniform; bandannas, T-shirts, shoes and even earrings to signal their affiliation. But Farmer, a former Crip who is now a gang intervention worker, said that for many years colors remained...

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Some Angelenos don't venture east of La Brea. Similarly, many rarely make it south of the 10 Freeway. Those who head south of Rodeo Road on Crenshaw Boulevard are rewarded with smoky barbeque joints serving large helpings of greens and corn bread; island cuisine from Jamaica, Belize and other parts...

Barbecue may be a religion in the South, but this time of year, it is everywhere in Los Angeles -- in backyards, storefronts, suburban chains, farmers markets and barrel smokers in church parking lots. Here are a few places we like a lot. No reservations required. Bigmista’s Barbecue Can the downtown...

On its website today, OpenTable.com announced the top 30 barbecue restaurants in the U.S., a list that includes local restaurants Gus’s, Naples Rib Company and Boneyard Bistro. The votes were culled from 16,000 reviews from what the company calls "verified diners," people who both made and kept...

The latest wave of sandwich shops (Hero Shop, Superba Food + Bread, Trencher) and modern Vietnamese cafes (East Borough, Phorage) in Los Angeles have generated tantalizing new spins on banh mi, the beloved Vietnamese sandwich that is the culinary result of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. ...

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The walk to school often took Jamar Nicholson and his friends through an alley off Florence Avenue in South Los Angeles. The teenagers' laughter had become a familiar sound during morning routines, neighbors said. Tuesday began no differently. Jamar said he and his friends were in the alley about...

A Los Angeles police shooting of a teenager this week has once again stoked law enforcement concerns about realistic-looking toy weapons, which have been part of fatal police clashes around the country and prompted calls for legislative action in California. Fifteen-year-old Jamar Nicholson was...

A 30-year-old man turned himself in to police Wednesday in connection with the hit-and-run death of a Los Angeles teenager, police said. Jesus Palomares Jaime Jr. was arrested about 9 a.m. at a South Los Angeles police station on suspicion of striking ReAnna Goss, 17, in the Hyde Park neighborhood,...

Michael Cooper, the former “Showtime” Lakers forward and coach of the L.A. Sparks, has purchased a home in the View Park area of Los Angeles for $1.1 million. The Spanish-style contemporary, built in 1951 and since updated, features an open-space kitchen, a formal dining room, a sunken living room...

Some Angelenos don't venture east of La Brea. Similarly, many rarely make it south of the 10 Freeway. Those who head south of Rodeo Road on Crenshaw Boulevard are rewarded with smoky barbeque joints serving large helpings of greens and corn bread; island cuisine from Jamaica, Belize and other parts...

The 12 young men spoke frankly about their run-ins with the law. They said they'd been racially profiled, thrown into the back of police cruisers. They spoke about the pain the criminal justice system had caused them, and they offered solutions on how to fix it.

A pit bull mix that was brutally slashed with a knife and beaten with a shovel over the weekend in South Los Angeles required more than 1,000 stitches and is now recovering at a temporary home, officials said.

The dog, named Spartacus, was seen being attacked by an angry neighbor near 10th Street...

Barbecue may be a religion in the South, but this time of year, it is everywhere in Los Angeles -- in backyards, storefronts, suburban chains, farmers markets and barrel smokers in church parking lots. Here are a few places we like a lot. No reservations required.

On its website today, OpenTable.com announced the top 30 barbecue restaurants in the U.S., a list that includes local restaurants Gus’s, Naples Rib Company and Boneyard Bistro. The votes were culled from 16,000 reviews from what the company calls "verified diners," people who both made and kept...

For more than a decade, actor Michael Jace graced the small screen, becoming a familiar face as a Los Angeles Police Department detective on “The Shield.”But it was an off-screen Jace who was in handcuffs Monday night surrounded by LAPD officers. Twenty feet away, inside the hall of a well-kept,...

Allegations by Los Angeles police that "Shield" actor Michael Jace shot his wife to death at their Hyde Park home Monday night shocked longtime neighbors who described the couple as loving and friendly, but it isn't the first time he's faced accusations of domestic violence.

“The Shield” actor Michael Jace -- accused of shooting his wife to death Monday night during what police described as a possible domestic dispute -- has been under financial stress for years, court records show.

The actor, 51, filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in March 2011, when he listed his liabilities...

This post has been updated. See below for details.People protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case were confronting lines of Los Angeles police officers Monday evening along Crenshaw Boulevard.

The protesters, some of them waving signs and others on bikes, kicked storefronts...

Transportation officials are seeking an additional $160 million for the Crenshaw Line light-rail construction budget, bringing the project’s estimated cost to more than $2 billion, according to a staff report issued Friday by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.